North Korea Foreign Ministry: "US Creates Threat with Aircraft Carrier... Strongly Condemns Bringing Issue to Security Council"

North Korea Claims Missile Launch as "Appropriate Response to ROK-US Joint Exercises"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] North Korea officially protested on the 6th against the redeployment of the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan (CVN-76, 103,000 tons class) to the waters around the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on the same day, saying, "We are closely monitoring the United States' redeployment of an aircraft carrier strike group to the waters of the Korean Peninsula, which is creating a serious threat to the stability of the situation on the Korean Peninsula and surrounding areas," according to a report by the Korean Central News Agency.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also raised its voice, strongly condemning "the United States and some follower countries for unjustly bringing our military's rightful countermeasures against the South Korea-U.S. joint exercises, which escalate military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, to the United Nations Security Council."

This confirms North Korea's reaction to the South Korea-U.S. joint exercises conducted in international waters of the East Sea at the end of last month, in which the Ronald Reagan participated, by launching a medium-range ballistic missile on the 4th.

The Ronald Reagan, which had left Korean waters after the South Korea-U.S. joint exercises, redeployed to international waters of the East Sea yesterday as a response to North Korea's medium-range ballistic missile launch and is scheduled to participate in the South Korea-U.S.-Japan joint exercises.

The United Nations Security Council held a public briefing in the early morning Korean time on the same day to discuss North Korea's medium-range ballistic missile launch, but only reaffirmed the sharp differences in positions between the West and China and Russia. North Korea launched another ballistic missile into the East Sea again that morning.

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